In SharePoint 2013 we add some great new features around self-service site creation (SSSC). You can configure things like whether to use a custom form to create the site collection, whether to create a subweb or site collection, what path should be used when the site collection is created, and whether to ask or require…
Year: 2012
Using Dreamweaver and Design Manager with SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 includes a number of new features to make it easier than ever before to style and publish web sites. One of those features is Design Manager; it allows you to do things like create different channels for your content – such as one set of pages for full size browsers, one for mobile…
In SharePoint 2013 My Site Collection Will Be Created In What Content Database?
I thought I'd phrase my answer in the form of a question…no wait, that isn't exactly right. Okay, let me just say that this is one short little post that falls in the category of "It's the Little Things You Love" about SharePoint 2013. Today's feature call out is about something that has been asked for…
A Memory Issue To Watch in SharePoint 2013 Beta 2
As folks start working with the SharePoint 2013 beta 2 bits, you may randomly notice certain errors that once they start, don’t go away. You may get dialog boxes (coming from javascript) that mention a 500 service activation error, or you may see search queries just stop working, or you may look in the ULS log…
Your First SharePoint 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 Development Tip – the Old 32-Bit Process Error
Here's your first development tip as you start cranking out SharePoint 2013 solutions using Visual Studio 2012. An old an really annoying problem in Visual Studio 2010 when building SharePoint apps is that it defaulted to creating x86 applications. The problem from a SharePoint perspective is that it gave you this incredibly useless "file not…
Converting A Classic Auth Content Database to Claims Auth in SharePoint 2013
In previous blogs for SharePoint 2010 I've talked about how to do claims migration – http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/07/20/migrating-from-windows-classic-auth-to-windows-claims-auth-in-sharepoint-2010-part-2.aspx and others. In SharePoint 2013 we have a new cmdlet for doing that called Convert-SPWebApplication, which I may cover at a future time. As you can tell from the name though, that cmdlet's scope is the web application. We…
Debugging Display Templates
Right after I published my last post on using custom display templates, of course one of the first questions I got was great – how do I debug them? Well there are a couple of ways that I’ve found to debug these: In your display template add your own javascript after the first div tag…
Using Query Rules, Result Types and Display Templates for a Custom Search Sales Report in SharePoint 2013
<Standard Disclaimer: Blog formatting sucks. Do your eyes a favor – download the attachment, which is the Word document version of this.) UPDATE: a few things have changed for RTM so I am updating this post and adding the artifacts I used to create everything. Okay, a long title for today’s topic but we’re going…
Setting Up the Subscription Settings Service Application in SharePoint 2013
Here’s a little tip that’s not particularly brilliant, but just useful, as you start working with the new application model in SharePoint 2013. You always need a subscription settings service application, but it’s one of those things that you cannot create in the UI. So just keep a bookmark to this post and come back…
Configuring Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013
As you know or will soon learn, Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013 is no longer a service application that is part of your SharePoint farm. Instead it is installed as a separate farm, which provides a number of advantages, such as reuse between multiple SharePoint and Exchange farms, a separate patching schedule, etc. It…